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COMPARATIVE ECOLOGY OF MICROORGANISMS AND MACRO...

This second edition textbook offers an expanded conceptual synthesis of microbial ecology with
plant and animal ecology. Drawing on examples from the biology of microorganisms and
macroorganisms  this textbook provides a much-needed interdisciplinary approach to ecology. The
focus is the individual organism and comparisons are made along six axes: genetic variation 
nutritional mode  size  growth  life cycle  and influence of the environment. When it was
published in 1991  the first edition of Comparative Ecology of Microorganisms and
Macroorganisms was unique in its attempt to clearly compare fundamental ecology across the
gamut of size. The explosion of molecular biology and the application of its techniques to
microbiology and organismal biology have particularly demonstrated the need for
interdisciplinary understanding. This updated and expanded edition remains unique. It treats
the same topics at greater depth and includes an exhaustive compilation of both the most recent
relevant literature in microbial ecology and plant animal ecology  as well as the early
research papers that shaped the concepts and theories discussed. Among the completely updated
topics in the book are phylogenetic systematics  search algorithms and optimal foraging theory
comparative metabolism  the origins of life and evolution of multicellularity  and the
evolution of life cycles. From Reviews of the First Edition: John Andrews has succeeded
admirably in building a bridge that is accessible to all ecologists. -Ecology I recommend this
book to all ecologists. It is a thoughtful attempt to integrate ideas from  and develop common
themes for  two fields of ecology that should not have become fragmented. -American Scientist
Such a synthesis is long past due  and it is shameful that ecologists (both big and little)
have been so parochial. -The Quarterly Review of Biology

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